Everyone has troubles. But what if from annoying accidents they develop into a coherent and inexorable system, which is not possible to overcome? If troubles follow you everywhere - at work, in communication, in everyday life? And if those few who still dare to talk to you, in response to your complaints, get off with meaningful hints, pointing their index finger somewhere upward... You are written off. Written off from life, like unusable goods from a warehouse. And I really want to know whose pencil marked the fatal word “write off” against your name!

“Written Off” is the first novel in the grotesque fantasy trilogy “The Noughts.” Its main character, a young television scriptwriter Sviridov, suddenly finds himself on a mysterious list, which includes, besides him, another 180 Muscovites aged from 16 to 60 years old. Who and why included them in this list, the members of which either lose their jobs or get promotions, then they are called for a general medical examination? Fears, humiliations, hopes, rumors and ghosts of the 2000s - in the new novel by Dmitry Bykov, combining the features of a thriller, parable and political satire.